USC Architecture XpoInstructor: Eric Haas
Architecture as Receipt constructs a diagrammatic grammar that translates socio-economic forces into spatial organization. Grounded in the analysis of Grand Central Market, it traces how shifts in stall-aisle patterns register broader transformations. Through decoding and re-encoding commercial typologies, it destabilizes typology by reframing architecture as a system of continuous negotiation, where spatial order is no […]
Fernando Campos | Eric Haas What if a city could fit in your hands? This project breaks Mexico City's architecture into modular pieces you can stack, rearrange, and play with. By controlling scale, material, placement, and interaction, it tests how learning happens through touch, manipulation, and failure. As young children build and rebuild, they begin […]
“Dignity Deal” goes beyond the “Essential Minimum” to propose a broader framework for achieving dignified housing. Through a code-like design process informed by context and narrative, the projects engage in the 'dignity deal'—translating categorized values such as aesthetics, care, community, greenness, personality, and homeyness into spatial decisions that manifest dignity into lived experience.
Dining is not a static space but a choreography of spatial conditions that shape how people gather, interact, and share food. This project constructs an architectural framework by breaking the act of dining into distinct conditions and reorganizing them through design. Rather than following a fixed sequence, these conditions are arranged in multiple ways to […]